雲うん遊ゆう

noun

wandering aimlessly; cloud-wandering

Buddhist term for a monk's itinerant life, traveling without fixed destination like a drifting cloud. Rare in everyday Japanese; mainly encountered in religious or literary contexts.

• 彼かれは雲うん遊ゆうの僧そうとして諸しょ国こくを巡めぐった。

  He traveled around the provinces as a wandering monk.